5/6/2025 5:44:49 PM Linklaters ESG Newsletter - May 2025 By Sara Feijao Gilly Hutchinson Julia Voskoboinikova The May edition of our Global ESG Newsletter is now available and can be accessed here. Our May issue covers key developments on the full...
11/5/2024 2:09:50 PM Linklaters ESG Newsletter - November 2024 By Sara Feijao Gilly Hutchinson Julia Voskoboinikova Welcome to the global Linklaters ESG Newsletter. Each issue covers key developments in the UK, EU, US, Asia and globally on the full...
7/16/2024 1:58:23 PM UK: Supreme Court decision rules that the grant of planning permission for oil wells in Surrey was unlawful for failing to assess scope 3 emissions By Tara Janus Matt Dodd On 20 June 2024, the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in R (Finch) v Surrey County Council [2024] UKSC 20. A majority...
7/2/2024 12:04:58 PM Linklaters ESG Newsletter - July 2024 By Julia Voskoboinikova Gilly Hutchinson Sara Feijao Welcome to the global Linklaters ESG Newsletter. Each issue covers key developments in the UK, EU, US, Asia and globally on the full...
6/4/2024 2:24:07 PM Linklaters ESG Newsletter - June 2024 By Julia Voskoboinikova Gilly Hutchinson Sara Feijao Welcome to the latest edition of the global Linklaters ESG Newsletter. Each issue covers key developments in the UK, EU, US, Asia and...
5/29/2024 12:47:57 PM UK: High Court rules approval of government’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan was unlawful, in sequel to 2022 decision By Matt Dodd On 3 May 2024, the English High Court found, for a second time, that the process by which the government’s climate change plans were...
5/7/2024 1:17:23 PM Linklaters ESG Newsletter - May 2024 By Gilly Hutchinson Sara Feijao Julia Voskoboinikova Welcome to the latest edition of the global Linklaters ESG Newsletter. Each issue covers key developments in the UK, EU, US, Asia and...
4/11/2024 4:18:03 PM Linklaters ESG Newsletter - April 2024 By Sara Feijao Gilly Hutchinson Julia Voskoboinikova Welcome to the latest edition of the global Linklaters ESG Newsletter. Each issue covers key developments in the UK, EU, US, Asia and...
4/10/2024 6:45:17 PM European Court of Human Rights rules that Switzerland’s failure to implement sufficient measures to combat climate change violates human rights By Charlotte Peiffer Claudia Cavicchioli Julie Esquenazi European Court of Human Rights rules that Switzerland’s failure to implement sufficient measures to combat climate change violates human...
3/5/2024 3:31:32 PM Linklaters ESG Newsletter - March 2024 By Julia Voskoboinikova Sara Feijao Gilly Hutchinson Welcome to the latest edition of the global Linklaters ESG Newsletter. Each issue covers key developments in the UK, EU, US, Asia and...
2/26/2024 1:25:54 PM UK to exit the Energy Charter Treaty By Matthew Weiniger MP Graham Stuart (Minister of State for Energy Security and Net Zero) announced on 22 February 2024 that the United Kingdom will leave...
11/27/2023 12:29:08 PM UK: ClientEarth fail to appeal ruling in Shell climate-related derivative action By Wilma Rix Sara Feijao The UK Court of Appeal has now definitively refused to allow ClientEarth to proceed with a proposed derivative action against the...
11/9/2023 4:01:13 PM UK High Court dismisses climate challenge to latest oil and gas licensing round By Alexander Fawke Niamh Gent The UK High Court has dismissed two judicial review claims brought by environmental NGOs Greenpeace and Uplift in respect of government...
10/3/2023 3:44:09 PM Linklaters ESG Newsletter - October 2023 By Julia Voskoboinikova Sara Feijao Gilly Hutchinson Welcome to the global Linklaters ESG Newsletter. Each issue covers key developments in the UK, EU, US, Asia, and globally on the full...
8/2/2023 1:04:08 PM UK Court of Appeal confirms derivative action relating to climate change should not proceed By Rebecca Burton Faye Presland Wilma Rix Sara Feijao Lucy Fergusson +2 more... Show less In 2022, the High Court decided that an application for a common law derivative action against the directors of the USS (Universities...
7/26/2023 2:53:16 PM UK High Court confirms that climate-related derivative action against Shell cannot proceed By Sara Feijao Wilma Rix Two separate UK court judgments in recent days have rejected claims that directors had failed in their duties because of their handling...